Wanted to confirm that I was using Kobo on my own server. Still, is Kobo support available for own server deployment?
I want to deploy Kobo on another server.
Welcome back to the community, @Shahzadsalim! Did you mean you wish to install KoboToolbox to your own server?
Yes, I want to install this on my own server.
@Shahzadsalim, these support article should help you install KoboToolbox on your own server:
Hi @Shahzadsalim,
I wanted to share my experience with installing Kobo locally. We set up a local Kobo server and deployed two forms, each containing around 100 questions. About 140 users were actively submitting data.
For the first week, everything ran smoothly. The server had sufficient resources, and system utilization consistently remained below 5%. However, despite the low resource usage, the system began to slow down significantly after a week. Eventually, we were unable to access the data through the web interface, and the summary page started returning a 503 error.
To retrieve the data, we had to connect directly to the MongoDB database and extract it manually.
Based on this experience, I wouldn’t recommend running KoboCollect locally for large-scale data collection. It ended up costing us a lot of time and effort.
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